TN: Mother seeks daughter s mercy killing
In a heart-rending plea to authorities, a middle-aged woman has sought euthanasia for her 14-year-old cerebral palsy-affected daughter.
July 3 2012, 12:07 pm
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In a heart-rending plea to authorities, a middle-aged woman has sought euthanasia for her 14-year-old cerebral palsy-affected daughter.
July 3 2012, 12:07 pm
Read MoreA police constable has sought mercy killing from the President after he was allegedly harassed by senior officers despite being physically unfit.
May 4 2012, 1:51 pm
Read MoreA Chinese migrant worker has been sentenced to three years in jail for acceding to his paralysed mother`s request for mercy killing.
May 31 2012, 6:42 pm
Read MoreJohn Wise watched a tear roll down his wife`s face as he stood alongside her bed in the intensive care unit.
August 13 2012, 2:22 pm
Read MoreIn a judgement that will lay precedence for others, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected the mercy petition filed by Punjab militant Devender Pal Singh Bhullar, who was convicted of killing nine people with a car bomb in Delhi in 1993.
April 12 2013, 1:08 pm
Read MoreUnable to take care of her invalid son due to poverty, a 64-year-old woman in Andhra Pradesh has sought euthanasia for him -- a 36-year-old graduate in aeronautical science.
February 7 2012, 2:16 pm
Read MoreMadhya Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party chief Prabhat Jha on Monday wrote a four-page letter to President Pratibha Patil.
June 27 2011, 3:53 pm
Read MoreThe apex court bench of Justices Markandey Katju and Gyan Sudha Misra said there was no law in the country that permits mercy killing and it could not involve itself in judicial murder.
January 24 2011, 2:58 pm
Read MoreAsha Devi is aware of the cruel irony. "Mothers seek long lives for their children, but here I am seeking death for my two sons," she says, slumped beside Nitin, 15, and Anshu, 13, who suffer from muscular dystrophy.
March 9 2011, 11:57 am
Read MoreThe Supreme Court on Friday sought the personal presence of a 3-member team of doctors from Mumbai to assist it on the vexed question of permitting mercy killing of a rape victim virtually brain dead for the last 36 years.
February 18 2011, 9:42 pm
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